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They had been warned that it would be private, but the christening of the future king proved much too private for many of those who left the gates of St James’s Palace with little more than a glimpse of royalty through tinted glass.

Lorely Francis felt short-changed. “I understand they want their privacy but if they want the public’s support, it’s got to be a two-way thing,” she said, as the Duke and Duchess, guests and godparents were whisked away in a convoy of cars and coaches, without so much as royal wave. “It wouldn’t have needed much in the